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Iran - Global Players and Warmongers

John Pilger's 'War on Democracy' is a hard-hitting look at American realities.

Pilger's 'War on Democracy'
Please visit: JohnPilger.com

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - We have shown you this incredible program before, it might be one of the most important programs of this nature ever produced; critically evaluating the history of recent U.S. politics in a way that only Michael Moore might do here, amid endless criticism.

John Pilger is in my opinion, the most accomplished and honest documentary producer alive today, who delivers the goods in 90 minutes that you won't find in 12 years of public education in America, because Americans lie to their kids the way parents and institutions in other countries lie to their kids about their nation's real history, which in the case of the U.S., begins with the Genocidal extermination of nearly all Native Americans.

From the period following World War Two until the last couple of decades, the United States pillaged and murdered political leaders in Central and South America if and when they weren't friendly toward U.S. policies and business interests. To the Americans in control, that is all that mattered. It wasn't what these deposed and murdered world leaders had to offer their citizens; that did not matter to the United States, only Panama Canal access, connections with drug cartels who have flooded our cracked sidewalks and streets with pathetic mindless addicts, and lots and lots of business.

Never forget that the Iran-Contra era's "weapons for drugs" programs launched by the CIA under Reagan, were the premier launch for delivering cocaine and later methamphetamine, to the U.S. When we write about this, we do it as an agency with a team member, Robert 'Tosh' Plumlee, who flew those drugs for the CIA and in the end pulled out over it. He was among the first to offer testimony about the guns for drugs programs, along with an extremely respected DEA agent, Cele Castillo, who languishes behind bars on trumped federal charges today, and that is a pathetic reflection of the real goals of those carrying that red white and blue logo that has fully dumped its former glory right across the world stage, splattered.
- Tim King, Salem-News.com

Here is John Pilger's intro...

"President Bush has promised to rid the world of evil and to lead the great mission to build free societies on every continent.

To understand such an epic lie is to understand history - hidden history, suppressed history, history that explains why we in the West know a lot about the crimes of others but almost nothing about our own.

The missing word is EMPIRE.

The existence of an American Empire is rarely acknowledged or it is smothered in displays of jingoism that celebrate war and an arrogance that says no country has a right to go its own way unless that way coincides with the interests of the United States.

For empires have nothing to do with freedom.

They are vicious, they are about conquest and theft and control and secrets.

Since 1945 the United States has attempted to overthrow 50 governments, many of them democracies. In the process 30 countries have been attacked and bombed, causing the loss of countless lives...." John Pilger in his film "The War on Democracy"




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